Avant and Navisite, a top Microsoft CSP, teamed up to give agent partners access to resell managed Office 365. The popular offering could help partners to sell more cloud services and bring more value to their end customers.

Linksys has long been known has a company capable of delivering enterprise-class products at SMB prices, but since being acquired by Belkin, it has significantly upped its investments in technology innovation and partner program improvement.

After eliminating SMB accounts last year, Windstream is relaunching into the small business space with a combined UCaaS and SD-WAN offering. The new solution brings together Windstream's newly acquired Broadview OfficeSuite UCaaS platform and its own VeloCloud-powered SD-WAN offering.

Mike Champion, founder and CEO of solution provider startup Xcelocloud discussed why he created a company with a laser-focused on SD-WAN consulting, broke down the different "flavors" of SD-WAN and highlighted the growing opportunity for partners.

"[Mitel-ShoreTel] does not seem to be, from my perspective, like one-plus-one equals three here. It seems like two legacy providers who are running out of market share," said RingCentral CEO Vlad Shmunis.

In July, the telecommunications industry stayed hot with providers snapping up more fiber assets and releasing new services for partners and customers. CRN rounds up six moves that solution providers should know about.

LogicMonitor founder and Chief Product Officer Steve Francis says his company sometimes sees issues that Amazon never acknowledges. He sat down with CRN to discuss how the SaaS-based performance monitoring vendor is upping its channel game.

RapidScale co-founder and CEO Randy Jeter shared how the cloud service provider is attracting stronger talent and benefiting partners by paying more attention to its workplace, amenities and company culture.